Lepidiota delicatula Blackburn, 1888

Allsopp, Peter G., 2020, Clarification of the status of the types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950, Zootaxa 4885 (4), pp. 451-486 : 463

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.4.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4340920

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Lepidiota delicatula Blackburn, 1888
status

 

Lepidiota delicatula Blackburn, 1888

Lepidiota delicatula Blackburn, 1888b: 852 .

Lepidiota suavior Blackburn, 1912: 56 ; Britton 1978: 81 (synonymy).

Lectotype of Lepidiota delicatula (here designated) female ( Figs. 20–22 View FIGURES 17–28. 17–19 ): N.T. [Northern Territory] (handwritten) | LEPIDIOTA delicatula, Blackb. (handwritten by Blackburn) | I.510 Lepidiota delicatula Bl N. Territory (handwritten) TYPE (handwritten in red, at right angle) | SAMA Database No. 25-034465 | my lectotype label; in SAM.

Blackburn (1888b) did not define the type series, seeing an unknown number of females (vide Articles 73.1.2, 72.1.1). Lea (1912, 1916) referred to a “type” in SAM. Britton (1978) referred to a “ holotype ” male from Northern Territory in SAM and Houston & Weir (1992) followed this, albeit with “(probable)”. As Britton (1978) and Houston & Weir (1992) provided no discussion and did not label any specimen in SAM as the holotype, neither mention of a holotype constitutes a valid lectotype designation (vide Article 74.5). To stabilise nomenclature, I designate the specimen in SAM the lectotype.

Lectotype of Lepidiota suavior (here designated) male: Type H.T. (circular red ringed, typeset) | 7901 Roeb. B. Roebuck Bay [18.09°S, 122.28°E] (handwritten in red) ♂, T (handwritten) | Blackburn coll. 1910-236 (typeset) | LEPIDIOTA suavior, Blackb. (handwritten) | my lectotype label; in NHML.

Paralectotype female of Lepidiota suavior : Type H. T. (circular red ringed, typeset) | 7901 Roeb. B. Roebuck Bay [18.09°S, 122.28°E] (handwritten in red) ♀ T (handwritten) GoogleMaps | Blackburn coll. 1910-236 (typeset) | LEPIDIOTA suavior, Blackb. (handwritten) | my paralectotype label; in NHML .

Blackburn (1911) did not define the type series, seeing an unknown number of males and females (vide Articles 73.1.2, 72.1.1). Lea (1912, 1916) noted that the ‘type’ had been sent to NHML. Britton (1978) referred to a “ holotype ” (gender not given) from Roebuck Bay in NHML and Houston & Weir (1992) interpreted Britton’s (1978) incorrect reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (and stated it to be a male). Neither referred to a female syntype. As Britton (1978) and Houston & Weir (1992) provided no discussion and did not label any specimen in NHML, neither mention of a holotype constitutes a valid lectotype designation (vide Article 74.5). To stabilise nomenclature, I designate the male in NHML the lectotype. The females in NHML becomes a paralectotype.

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

NHML

Natural History Museum, Tripoli

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

Genus

Lepidiota

Loc

Lepidiota delicatula Blackburn, 1888

Allsopp, Peter G. 2020
2020
Loc

Lepidiota suavior

Britton, E. B. 1978: 81
Blackburn, T. 1912: 56
1912
Loc

Lepidiota delicatula

Blackburn, T. 1888: 852
1888
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